Posted on 06/03/2018 8:43:58 AM PDT by EdnaMode
When a catastrophic earthquake hits California, buildings will topple and potentially hundreds could be killed.
But what gets less attention is the wrenching aftermath of such a huge temblor, which could leave whole neighborhoods torched by fires uninhabitable and hundreds of thousands of people without a home.
Officials are grappling with where all these quake refugees would go.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 400,000 could be displaced in a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault, which directly runs underneath cities like Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward and Fremont, said Ken Hudnut, the U.S. Geological Survey’s science advisor for risk reduction. And it’s possible that more than 250,000 people in Southern California could be forced out of their homes after a major earthquake on the San Andreas fault, Hudnut said.
Not everyone will need to stay in public shelters — many will stay with relatives, friends and hotels. Still, more than 175,000 people may have no other choice than stay at a public shelter in Southern California, which could be could be challenged with acute shortages of food, water and medicine, according to ShakeOut, a USGS report simulating a major Southern California earthquake.
And in the Bay Area, so many buildings built under minimal codes could be so damaged many may be forced to move away “for at least several months, and possibly permanently” due to the region’s housing shortage, according to a separate USGS report on a hypothetical Northern California earthquake, called HayWired.
“So many people will be displaced they won’t be able to stay within the metro area,” Keith Porter, a University of Colorado Boulder professor and chief engineer of the USGS earthquake reports, said of a major Bay Area earthquake. “So they’ll move away, just like they moved away from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.”
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The quality of life of anyone who is displaced would be low, so they should be killed, according to liberal philosophy.
Indios.
LOL. Great idea!
Not to pick nits, but the Mexican war ended in 1848.
But think of all the jobs that will be created rebuilding the post-quake infrastructure and society.
It will be classic leftist economic stimulus. If you don’t believe me ask Nancy Pelosi.
I am sure Mexico would be happy to take them, seeing as the US is all racist and everything.
It “offends” me watching those foreigners holding their BS sign while waving OUR flags.
Me neither. They acted like everything was perfect.
They voted for overpopulation and building on faultlines
Let em eat cake
“Reopen Arpiao’s tent jail as a refugee camp.”
But this time NO amenities!
Into the Pacific Ocean?
Back to Mexico or up to Seattle.
Liberals just stay out of Arizona … we are full. TRUE conservatives we could make room for
Catastrophic quakes kill tens of thousands in most places in the world... and we fret over hundreds...
2010 Haiti 7.0 Quake killed 100,000 (1% of the entire nation... which would be 3 million in the US)
2008 Sichuan 8.0 Quake killed 69,000...
2005 Pakistan 7.6 Quake killed 86,000...
2017 saw 7 quakes over 7.0 magnitude, 2016 saw 17 of them.
Back to Mexico maybe?
“and we fret over hundreds... “
What’s your point? Seems we have more compassion and intelligence to build things that don’t kill people.
Beat me too it!
California is a big state. They stay there and help rebuild. It’s easier to move in shelter, water, food, and supplies than to move out refugees.
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Winner!
That is an example of why you never see Mexican kids in the finals at spelling Bees.
Back to Mexico?
And
The Far East - Asia
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